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ii l - i 1 1 ww b f "" iww 18 irttcct cun\ll tufct amcdir/\w irvr/i " wjitij ti4c mcvt k i ia ami __ | || f jj i^j [ vfl l vf tt * jl la ihb i inuw int aivifckl\-ain idfca i ll wm n int pica i ij*\_t 1i j r i m~/\r 111 l !_____> 1 Chicago examiner sunday Chicago december 6 1908 sunday price five cents vol ix no 23 a m biddison declared the most gigantic swindler in wall street annals letter to queen victoria found signed by ten millionaires asking u s annexation associate of mrs peck scheme was to rent securities in fake companies to money borrowers new tork dec s developments to day in connection with the arrest on a forgery charge of snmuel l blddison a broker with offices in the morton build ing disclosed what the police say is one if the most extensive intricate an.d well jlanned schemes that ever has been aatched in wall street these developments it is alleged show thai blddison was the head and front of i swindling syndicate whose operations covered the whole of the united states owing to the secrecy with which he en veloped his transactions however it is ikely to be months the district attorney's vffice said tonight before the full ex tent of them can be ascertained while assistant district attorney kindle berger who has charge of the case is convinced that blddison and bis confeder ates obtained hundreds of thousands of dollars he says that if the swindlers had not been stepped their booty would have run into the millions communication to queen the data on which this calculation is cased was brought to light by the mass of tfoeuments seized in biddison's office these documents included bonds and cer tificates of stocks calling for almost ln ralculable sums among them too were lome of the strangest communications ever jeen the most peculiar perhaps was a petit ion bearing the names of ten of the best known men in the united states and addressed to the late queen victoria of england and the prince of wales that petition read as follows we the undersigned do most earnest ly beg your majesties the most grac ious and beloved queen of england and his royal higness pardon for the ungracious act of our forefathers of ver 100 years ago in declaring the independence of the united states and now after 100 years of independence we come before you with this petition from a humble people and ask your forgiveness can't run government alone wc also acknowledge our innbility to run this government alone aijd beg that we have the great and glorious privilege of being annexed to your great and glorious domain in order that we may enjoy all the blessings of a monarchial government and we here and now promise you that we will never advo cate a measure without international agreement sijmed mark hanna * m'man j gage john sherman grover cleveland john g carlisle lohn d palmer john d rockefeller john d tanner simon b buckner george m ruleman signatures in biddison's hand all the signatures to this document were in the same handwriting which experts aiy was biddison's shorn of nil its embellishments blddl ton's scheme was very simple it consist ed of printing certificates of stock and bonds in companies that existed principal ly in his imagination and lending those bonds for so much per month to persons desirous of obtaining security on which to raise money from bunks or brokers in obtaining borrowers for the bogus se curities middlson employed confederates whenever he lent any bonds or stock he invariably took a trust receipt if any of the bonds were sold and the purchasers of them applied fer the payment of the coupons blddison produced this receipt and alleged that the bonds had been stolen from him the victims pocketed their loss and returned the bonds threatened prosecution if they did not biddison threatened them with criminal prosecution and cited the case of one of his agents a poor broken down man named a regulus shippey whom he did cause to be convicted and sent to sing sing where he now is some of the persons who hired bonds from biddison were the following george w dresser snmuel k schwenk charlton contract company frank a yarnell george i robinson jr dr g n morton e h m roehr william hopper a s hosenen h b malm a p rosher and 0 f cllftord through the papers found in biddison's office it was learned that he had been as v soclated in schemes with mrs ellen peck of spark hill n y who is now in the tombs on the charge of swindling nor rannd & wilson real estate brokers out of 2,000 in a bogus land deal in kentucky the deeds as well as what purported to be the original abstract of title to the kentucky land which mrs peek used un biddison petition for u s annex ation to britain j remarkable petition signed â– " by the names of ten promi nent men and addressed to the late queen victoria of england and the prince of wales was found in the office of 8 m biddison the new york broker formerly of Chicago held as a bond swindler experts say biddison xorote all the signa tures the petition follows we the undersigned do most earnestly beg your majesties the most gracious and beloved queen sf england and his royal high ness pardon for the ungracious act of our forefathers of over 100 years ago in declaring the independence of the united states and now after 100 years of independence we come before you with this peti tion from a humble people and ask your forgiveness we also acknowledge our inabil ity to run this government alone and beg that we have the great and glorious privilege of being an nexed to your great and glorious domain in order that we may en joy all the blessings of a monarch ial government and we here and now promise you that we will never advocate a measure without international agreement signed mark hanna lyman j gage john sherman grover cleveland john g carlisle john m palmer john d rockefeller john d tanner simon p buckner george m pullman countess elopes with commoner and comes to america to build home daughter of noble hungarian house weds man who works in spite of family'b wrath new york dec s the cunard liiier lucanla brought a lot of interesting things into port ' to-day people mall money cargo but the most interesting was the story of a romance involving the countess stlbenth of budapest and wil liam r n'edella who was a eteel expert in vienna the couple were passengers on the vessel nedella met the young woman whose beauty attracted the attention of every first-class passenger on the voyage over four years ago he was assigned to work in the southern part of austria where the countess family the members of which arc hungarians reside the pair fell in love the noble stibenths saw this and the girl's parents were furious the countess however maintained her calmness and announced quietly that she would wed nedella even if he was not a noble even if he was an austrian hated by hungarians and even if he did not have a pile of money and she jld the two eloped and reached london trailed by detectives hired by the girl's father they eluded the detectives and were married they returned to the stlbenth home but par ental forgiveness was not given so the couple bade adieu to their native land and came here we're going to california to start life all over again happy as larks said the husband who is only twenty-four years old killed by train aurora 111 dec 5 a misstep on a train of box cars in the burlington rail road yards coat the life of thomas gleason four years ago his father was killed by a train near where the son met death to-day campanini slapped by enraged tenor police part colombini from hammersteln's musical di rector at rehearsal lawsuit is likely singer's voice and high-sal aried contract killed by air says impresario new york dec b hugo colombini youngest and most promising of italian light tenors will sing no more for oscar hammersteln incidentally cleofonte cam panlni director of music of the manhattan opera house had best beware lor colom bini now insists that cnmpanlnl formed a camorra against him colomblnl's declaration follows an excit ing encounter between the tenor the maestro and impresario oscar on friday afternoon during the rehearsal of the juggler of notre dame which had its in itial performance that evening accounts from the warring participants in the bloodless battle differ but it is cer tain that colombini made an attempt to slap campanini's fee after a violent alter cation it is also certain that the redoubt a'ble oscar joined in the fray on his own asservatlon he bustled his high priced tenor np an aisle and consigned him to the tender mercies of two blue-eeated house policemen who forced him across the lobby and into the weary wastes of west thirty-fourth street athletic tenor denies ejectment colombini six feet tail lean and lithe as a panther with the muscles of an ath lete laughed gayly to-night at his snlte at 225 west thirty-eighth street when told of his alleged ejectment from the manhattan through an interpreter and in broken english he said that i should be ejected it is the one great joke i slapped signor cam panlnl i did not hit him for i feared i might kill him i could break him in two jnst like that and the athlete closed his prehensile fingers and went through the motions of breaking a bar in twain i do not blame herr hammersteln in a way for he has been misinformed he engaged me in italy and he has never heard me sing either in my own country or in america that is my misfortune and his as well for i was never in bet ter voice than i am at present it is all due to the jackass campanini he has formed the camorra against me he has been responsible for my failure to appear in several operas " the barber of seville was not in my contract but i was prepared to take that part then i was told that i would not be required in that opera but must sing the part of casslus iv thkello i re fused , i went to the manhattan yesterday and there i saw campanlnl excused him of having stood in my way hfe said that i conld not sing i told hiin at he was an impediment to true aft that j was a jackass and he paled be grew the color of wax it would have been a shame to strike him so i merely srffte that is all i left the opera hoÂ«eet i shall call on monday for my money if it is not there 1 shail bring suit i shall not return to italy i have business here and other engagements says air affected voice oscar hammerstein also smiled when asked to detail the encounter the affair was bloodless he said colombini had an excellent voice when he was engaged fret there is something in our air that sometimes tends to destroy temporarily the value of a light tenor's voice it was so with cazouran last year it is the same this year with colombini his operatic value being gone for chief roles by the terms of his contract i cut his salary from j2.000 to 500 and offered him the role of casslus he said he would not play an insignificant role what will you greatness is often achieved by making such a role the center of interest if colombini sues it is simply no 43 that of miss lee was no 42 one can not judge the operatic temperament co lombini is a nice boy but it was campa nlni who acted sunerbly after colombini had threatened r al he gave him a glance of scorn and turning to me said if i were mr hammerstein i would throw you out the tenor became somewhat excited and thereupon i seized him and handed him over to the house police his career at the manhattan is ended out of the goodness of my heart i offered him 500 a week to sing a minor role now if he desires he may return to europe by air ship by walking or in any way r nc may desire conipanini was at white heat when in formed that colombini accused him of a plot and of c-hastisiug him such a statement is incredible he said i have only pity for this youth his voice is not what it was because of climatic change perhaps there is no plot save in colombini imagination he never slapped me he would be unable there ! s nothing more to be said lecturer to describe slaughter of wild birds | the trail of the plume hunters will j be the subject of n free lecture by william j l finlny under the nusplces of the Illinois i audubon society at the Chicago academy lof sciences lincoln park sutuidny de i cerhber 12 the lecture will be illustrated ; y lantern slides and is expei-tcd to be one of the strongest appeals ever made for th j protection of binls against nocdlcss slaugh ter by hunters who il.-il.e lyltt.yv i <â€¢ ie fiom the killing of wild oii-ds for their 1 feathers easy now uncle joe refugee loses his fight for liberty rudowitz case goes to secre tary root with recommenda tion for extradition christian rudowitz who claims to be a political refugee but who is accused by the russian government of being a com mon murderer and robber to-morrw will be held by united states commissioner foote for judgment by the state depart ment with the recommendation that he be extradited commissioner foote after all arguments bad been concluded yesterday indicated that such will be his decision and all that is now left of the case so far as he is concerned is a question of whether he shall give an expression of his conclusions and opinions on the case before the evi dence is certified to secretary root at torneys for the defense have been given the privilege of electing whether his de cision shall be accompanied by an ex haustive opinion this will be determined monday afternoon protest meetings subscription lists a banded legion of stanch friends and an array of eminent lawyers hove failed in the preliminary fight to free rudowitz but the lettish rebel's supporters have not given np hope besides the discretion of the state department they have a hope in habeas corpus proceedings attorney darrow reviewed the evidence in detail maintaining that a clear case of revolution had been made out and that rudowitz connection with it could not be questioned attorney itigby in his final argument as serted that rudowitz and his associates had been employed on the theodore kluze estate where the murders charged were committed knew that klnze had money bad a grudge against him and did no more than commit a common murder and rob bery and then try to blame it on the rev olution food to be free at gas men's convention pretty girl cooks ordered to satisfy appetites of all visitors keed them see that the food is the best ever served to men be sure that there is plenty plenty of it " such were the final commands issued to the gas lnspectresses by mrs helen b armstrong at the flrtst regiment armory last night in preparation for the opening for the big convention and exposition this morning while the national comtnen-inl gas association aud^the american tlas in stitute delegates are debating subjects of interest to them mrs armstrong with tier corps of fair assistants will attend to the cooking of the meals which will be served t.i show that > rangi-s will c^ok the daintiest and beat of foods track gates left open train kills two men expressman and helper run down guard is arrested failure of the gateman to close the gates guarding the panhadle tracks at ' curtis street last evening resulted in the death of george nelson an expressman and william whelan his helper the wagon in which she men were riding was struck by a Chicago milwaukee & st paul ex press train nelson was killed instantly whalen died on his way to the county hospital joseph slpey the gateman is being held by the desplaines street police pending the coroner's inquest on monday slpey is said to have admitted to the police that he had failed to lower the gates with the approach of the passenger train the horse was not killed banker to be harvard president boston hears chair of charles w eliot offered to j j storrow according to report boston mass dec 5 â€” a definite rumor was circulated among harvard men in state street to-dny that the presidency of harvard college after charles w eliot leaves on may 1 next had been offered to james j storrow president of the boston school board and a member of the banking firm of lee higgluson sr co the rumor was that the position had been tendered unofficially to mr stor row by the harvard overseers when mr storrow himself was asked about it he said this is news to me i know nothing about it that is all i can say bernier's hearing in Chicago is postponed alleged swindler's california attor neys secure wrtk's respite at the revest of his los angeles attor neys raymond l bernler the mining promoter of the majestic building has procured a brief respite from the united states district court me was to have heen tried here on december 8 on the charge of conducting a swindle but the los angeles lawyers were unable to be here on that date and the trial whs post poned for a week or ten days bernier's Chicago representative george n lyman said yesterday that he did not know when his client would arrive here tell engineers how to stop smoke evil inspection department sends rules to railroad and boat men in an effort to pain the co-opention of lfremeu and engineers on the various rail roads and river craft that enter the city the smoke inspection department yesterday issued a millctlu entitled smoke abate ment on steam uatlroads written by g i ryder deputy smoke inspector of the city the pamphlet enntnlns twenty-seven pefees illusl rated it gives rules on fir ing an engine to avoid excessive smoko i'lie onjeet is to ain their friendly co-op uiatiou without resorting to law to enforce ordinances governing smoke reichstag orator seized by hysteria high political tension causes collapse when government member replies to attack special cable to the examiner berlin dec s an extraordinary scene occurred in the reichstag to-day it fur nished a striking evidence of the extremely high tension to which germnn politicians have been strung by recent events the setting of the scene was a spirited discussion of the imperial budget in the course of which animated reference was made to the naval programme and the foreign situation of germany herr schelde mann socialist attacked the government but vehemently criticised the action of the kaiser orator overcome by hysteria at the conclusion of herr scheldemanu's speech lieutenant colonel goltz a com missioner of the federal council arose to reply he uttered the opening words of his address then stopped suddenly and burst into a hysterical shriek of laughter a fellow member of the council moved to the lieutenant colonel's side with a word of soothing admonition but the speaker's agitation grew and amid great confusion he was carried shrieking and sobbing from the building during the debate herr sydew secretary of the imperial treasury went over the details of the revenues and the expendi ture he referred to tue sacrifices neces sary ro put the finances of the empire on a proper oasis and waa followed by speak ers of various parties who criticised the increased celerity in building battleships a fact that a member of the center party said was taken as a challenge by other nations germany resents criticism herr bassermnn national-liberal then declared that germany had never objected to the military and naval plans and arma ments of other nations and that she re jected energetically all suggestions from abroad regarding her army and navy which she would arrange according to her own wishes at the same time he said the whole na tion rejoiced that germany has decided to support iter ally austria-hungary in her attitude on the balkan situation Taft does not want park named after him cincinnati ohio dec s that pres ident-elect Taft does not fancy the dis tinction that comes from attaching the family name to parks became evident to day when mike mulleu one of the local republican bosses received a letter from him requesting that the name of Taft park be changed recently mullen had the rh.v council pass an ordinance changing the name of inwood park mount auburn to Taft park and he will now have the old name restored roosevelt to use big stick on his last congress session opening at washing ton to-morrow must not be dull president's dictum strenuous message prod if necessary further docu ments will be fired when ever solons sleep Â„' he wants laws remedied labor legislation is among important matters to be considered washington dec s.â€”presi dent roosevelt will have to fan into flame the smolder ing embers of the sixtieth congress which reassembles for its final ses sion at noon monday or its vital spark will flicker out march 4 next unnoticed and unmounrcd the president may be relied upon to furnish some excitement the idea of a tame and dead session of con gress does not appeal to him he wants debate discussion action congressmen who have visited we recently are impressed with the fact , that he does not take kindly to the thought that his administration shall close in sluggish dullness it is reported that his annual message will be one of his strongest papers to con gress and that it will bristle with sugges tions for new legislation that will rattle dry bones and cauÃŸe the most progressive of the republican members to sit up and take notice will force action if this message should not break the promised lethargy of the session special meetings it is promised are to come and they may force a reluctant house and an antagonistic senate into action congressmen gathering here during the past week have been promising themselves a quiet session the leaders speak as though the only things upon the house pro gramme for the winter are the appropria tion bills which carry the money needed for the conduct of the goverument these bills which total approximately about one billion dollars are being drafted now by the great committee having them in charge from the estimates that have been submit ted by the heads of the various depart ments charged with the disbursement of the money â€¢ while these bills will have to run the gauntlet of the house and the senate it is not believed that they will be cut to any great extent first two billion congress the sixtieth congress is fated to go down into history as the first two billion congress the first session having appropri ated a little more than a billion dollars despite the fact that no large appropria tions were made for great public works no river and harbor bill being reported and the public buildings bill being slashed until it was unrecognizable even b its fathers there has been some talk that excite ment may be stirred up in the house by a fight to change the rules in order that the power of the speaker may be clipped but uncle joe has not been consulted by those making this promise an over sight that is fatal to their plans the rule in force at the last session will govern at the coming session they were adopted at the caucus of the republicans lipid prior to the opening of the first sessiou for the life of the sixtieth congress to change the rules it would be neces sary to hold another caucus and cannon and his friends would be in control of the caucus the change cannot be made from the floor of the house any resolution to that end would be sent to the committee on rules where it would die speaker can non alone can change the rules by giving his assent to the change proposed they smile in derision a report has reached here from hot springs va though it lacks official con firmation that a condition of the with drawal of the opposition of president-elect Taft to the re-election of cannon as speak er of the sixty-first congress is that there shall be a change in the rules of the house whereby the speaker will be shoru of most of his authority speaker cannon says nothing as to this but his friends binile in derision uncle joe will not surrender one jot or tittle of his power they affirm he did not make the rules they say he found them in existence when ha came to the speakership they have net been increased or diminished by him his predecessors found them necessary to the dispatch of business in the house he continued on 2d page 4th column 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ii l - i 1 1 ww b f "" iww 18 irttcct cun\ll tufct amcdir/\w irvr/i " wjitij ti4c mcvt k i ia ami __ | || f jj i^j [ vfl l vf tt * jl la ihb i inuw int aivifckl\-ain idfca i ll wm n int pica i ij*\_t 1i j r i m~/\r 111 l !_____> 1 Chicago examiner sunday Chicago december 6 1908 sunday price five cents vol ix no 23 a m biddison declared the most gigantic swindler in wall street annals letter to queen victoria found signed by ten millionaires asking u s annexation associate of mrs peck scheme was to rent securities in fake companies to money borrowers new tork dec s developments to day in connection with the arrest on a forgery charge of snmuel l blddison a broker with offices in the morton build ing disclosed what the police say is one if the most extensive intricate an.d well jlanned schemes that ever has been aatched in wall street these developments it is alleged show thai blddison was the head and front of i swindling syndicate whose operations covered the whole of the united states owing to the secrecy with which he en veloped his transactions however it is ikely to be months the district attorney's vffice said tonight before the full ex tent of them can be ascertained while assistant district attorney kindle berger who has charge of the case is convinced that blddison and bis confeder ates obtained hundreds of thousands of dollars he says that if the swindlers had not been stepped their booty would have run into the millions communication to queen the data on which this calculation is cased was brought to light by the mass of tfoeuments seized in biddison's office these documents included bonds and cer tificates of stocks calling for almost ln ralculable sums among them too were lome of the strangest communications ever jeen the most peculiar perhaps was a petit ion bearing the names of ten of the best known men in the united states and addressed to the late queen victoria of england and the prince of wales that petition read as follows we the undersigned do most earnest ly beg your majesties the most grac ious and beloved queen of england and his royal higness pardon for the ungracious act of our forefathers of ver 100 years ago in declaring the independence of the united states and now after 100 years of independence we come before you with this petition from a humble people and ask your forgiveness can't run government alone wc also acknowledge our innbility to run this government alone aijd beg that we have the great and glorious privilege of being annexed to your great and glorious domain in order that we may enjoy all the blessings of a monarchial government and we here and now promise you that we will never advo cate a measure without international agreement sijmed mark hanna * m'man j gage john sherman grover cleveland john g carlisle lohn d palmer john d rockefeller john d tanner simon b buckner george m ruleman signatures in biddison's hand all the signatures to this document were in the same handwriting which experts aiy was biddison's shorn of nil its embellishments blddl ton's scheme was very simple it consist ed of printing certificates of stock and bonds in companies that existed principal ly in his imagination and lending those bonds for so much per month to persons desirous of obtaining security on which to raise money from bunks or brokers in obtaining borrowers for the bogus se curities middlson employed confederates whenever he lent any bonds or stock he invariably took a trust receipt if any of the bonds were sold and the purchasers of them applied fer the payment of the coupons blddison produced this receipt and alleged that the bonds had been stolen from him the victims pocketed their loss and returned the bonds threatened prosecution if they did not biddison threatened them with criminal prosecution and cited the case of one of his agents a poor broken down man named a regulus shippey whom he did cause to be convicted and sent to sing sing where he now is some of the persons who hired bonds from biddison were the following george w dresser snmuel k schwenk charlton contract company frank a yarnell george i robinson jr dr g n morton e h m roehr william hopper a s hosenen h b malm a p rosher and 0 f cllftord through the papers found in biddison's office it was learned that he had been as v soclated in schemes with mrs ellen peck of spark hill n y who is now in the tombs on the charge of swindling nor rannd & wilson real estate brokers out of 2,000 in a bogus land deal in kentucky the deeds as well as what purported to be the original abstract of title to the kentucky land which mrs peek used un biddison petition for u s annex ation to britain j remarkable petition signed â– " by the names of ten promi nent men and addressed to the late queen victoria of england and the prince of wales was found in the office of 8 m biddison the new york broker formerly of Chicago held as a bond swindler experts say biddison xorote all the signa tures the petition follows we the undersigned do most earnestly beg your majesties the most gracious and beloved queen sf england and his royal high ness pardon for the ungracious act of our forefathers of over 100 years ago in declaring the independence of the united states and now after 100 years of independence we come before you with this peti tion from a humble people and ask your forgiveness we also acknowledge our inabil ity to run this government alone and beg that we have the great and glorious privilege of being an nexed to your great and glorious domain in order that we may en joy all the blessings of a monarch ial government and we here and now promise you that we will never advocate a measure without international agreement signed mark hanna lyman j gage john sherman grover cleveland john g carlisle john m palmer john d rockefeller john d tanner simon p buckner george m pullman countess elopes with commoner and comes to america to build home daughter of noble hungarian house weds man who works in spite of family'b wrath new york dec s the cunard liiier lucanla brought a lot of interesting things into port ' to-day people mall money cargo but the most interesting was the story of a romance involving the countess stlbenth of budapest and wil liam r n'edella who was a eteel expert in vienna the couple were passengers on the vessel nedella met the young woman whose beauty attracted the attention of every first-class passenger on the voyage over four years ago he was assigned to work in the southern part of austria where the countess family the members of which arc hungarians reside the pair fell in love the noble stibenths saw this and the girl's parents were furious the countess however maintained her calmness and announced quietly that she would wed nedella even if he was not a noble even if he was an austrian hated by hungarians and even if he did not have a pile of money and she jld the two eloped and reached london trailed by detectives hired by the girl's father they eluded the detectives and were married they returned to the stlbenth home but par ental forgiveness was not given so the couple bade adieu to their native land and came here we're going to california to start life all over again happy as larks said the husband who is only twenty-four years old killed by train aurora 111 dec 5 a misstep on a train of box cars in the burlington rail road yards coat the life of thomas gleason four years ago his father was killed by a train near where the son met death to-day campanini slapped by enraged tenor police part colombini from hammersteln's musical di rector at rehearsal lawsuit is likely singer's voice and high-sal aried contract killed by air says impresario new york dec b hugo colombini youngest and most promising of italian light tenors will sing no more for oscar hammersteln incidentally cleofonte cam panlni director of music of the manhattan opera house had best beware lor colom bini now insists that cnmpanlnl formed a camorra against him colomblnl's declaration follows an excit ing encounter between the tenor the maestro and impresario oscar on friday afternoon during the rehearsal of the juggler of notre dame which had its in itial performance that evening accounts from the warring participants in the bloodless battle differ but it is cer tain that colombini made an attempt to slap campanini's fee after a violent alter cation it is also certain that the redoubt a'ble oscar joined in the fray on his own asservatlon he bustled his high priced tenor np an aisle and consigned him to the tender mercies of two blue-eeated house policemen who forced him across the lobby and into the weary wastes of west thirty-fourth street athletic tenor denies ejectment colombini six feet tail lean and lithe as a panther with the muscles of an ath lete laughed gayly to-night at his snlte at 225 west thirty-eighth street when told of his alleged ejectment from the manhattan through an interpreter and in broken english he said that i should be ejected it is the one great joke i slapped signor cam panlnl i did not hit him for i feared i might kill him i could break him in two jnst like that and the athlete closed his prehensile fingers and went through the motions of breaking a bar in twain i do not blame herr hammersteln in a way for he has been misinformed he engaged me in italy and he has never heard me sing either in my own country or in america that is my misfortune and his as well for i was never in bet ter voice than i am at present it is all due to the jackass campanini he has formed the camorra against me he has been responsible for my failure to appear in several operas " the barber of seville was not in my contract but i was prepared to take that part then i was told that i would not be required in that opera but must sing the part of casslus iv thkello i re fused , i went to the manhattan yesterday and there i saw campanlnl excused him of having stood in my way hfe said that i conld not sing i told hiin at he was an impediment to true aft that j was a jackass and he paled be grew the color of wax it would have been a shame to strike him so i merely srffte that is all i left the opera hoÂ«eet i shall call on monday for my money if it is not there 1 shail bring suit i shall not return to italy i have business here and other engagements says air affected voice oscar hammerstein also smiled when asked to detail the encounter the affair was bloodless he said colombini had an excellent voice when he was engaged fret there is something in our air that sometimes tends to destroy temporarily the value of a light tenor's voice it was so with cazouran last year it is the same this year with colombini his operatic value being gone for chief roles by the terms of his contract i cut his salary from j2.000 to 500 and offered him the role of casslus he said he would not play an insignificant role what will you greatness is often achieved by making such a role the center of interest if colombini sues it is simply no 43 that of miss lee was no 42 one can not judge the operatic temperament co lombini is a nice boy but it was campa nlni who acted sunerbly after colombini had threatened r al he gave him a glance of scorn and turning to me said if i were mr hammerstein i would throw you out the tenor became somewhat excited and thereupon i seized him and handed him over to the house police his career at the manhattan is ended out of the goodness of my heart i offered him 500 a week to sing a minor role now if he desires he may return to europe by air ship by walking or in any way r nc may desire conipanini was at white heat when in formed that colombini accused him of a plot and of c-hastisiug him such a statement is incredible he said i have only pity for this youth his voice is not what it was because of climatic change perhaps there is no plot save in colombini imagination he never slapped me he would be unable there ! s nothing more to be said lecturer to describe slaughter of wild birds | the trail of the plume hunters will j be the subject of n free lecture by william j l finlny under the nusplces of the Illinois i audubon society at the Chicago academy lof sciences lincoln park sutuidny de i cerhber 12 the lecture will be illustrated ; y lantern slides and is expei-tcd to be one of the strongest appeals ever made for th j protection of binls against nocdlcss slaugh ter by hunters who il.-il.e lyltt.yv i rangi-s will c^ok the daintiest and beat of foods track gates left open train kills two men expressman and helper run down guard is arrested failure of the gateman to close the gates guarding the panhadle tracks at ' curtis street last evening resulted in the death of george nelson an expressman and william whelan his helper the wagon in which she men were riding was struck by a Chicago milwaukee & st paul ex press train nelson was killed instantly whalen died on his way to the county hospital joseph slpey the gateman is being held by the desplaines street police pending the coroner's inquest on monday slpey is said to have admitted to the police that he had failed to lower the gates with the approach of the passenger train the horse was not killed banker to be harvard president boston hears chair of charles w eliot offered to j j storrow according to report boston mass dec 5 â€” a definite rumor was circulated among harvard men in state street to-dny that the presidency of harvard college after charles w eliot leaves on may 1 next had been offered to james j storrow president of the boston school board and a member of the banking firm of lee higgluson sr co the rumor was that the position had been tendered unofficially to mr stor row by the harvard overseers when mr storrow himself was asked about it he said this is news to me i know nothing about it that is all i can say bernier's hearing in Chicago is postponed alleged swindler's california attor neys secure wrtk's respite at the revest of his los angeles attor neys raymond l bernler the mining promoter of the majestic building has procured a brief respite from the united states district court me was to have heen tried here on december 8 on the charge of conducting a swindle but the los angeles lawyers were unable to be here on that date and the trial whs post poned for a week or ten days bernier's Chicago representative george n lyman said yesterday that he did not know when his client would arrive here tell engineers how to stop smoke evil inspection department sends rules to railroad and boat men in an effort to pain the co-opention of lfremeu and engineers on the various rail roads and river craft that enter the city the smoke inspection department yesterday issued a millctlu entitled smoke abate ment on steam uatlroads written by g i ryder deputy smoke inspector of the city the pamphlet enntnlns twenty-seven pefees illusl rated it gives rules on fir ing an engine to avoid excessive smoko i'lie onjeet is to ain their friendly co-op uiatiou without resorting to law to enforce ordinances governing smoke reichstag orator seized by hysteria high political tension causes collapse when government member replies to attack special cable to the examiner berlin dec s an extraordinary scene occurred in the reichstag to-day it fur nished a striking evidence of the extremely high tension to which germnn politicians have been strung by recent events the setting of the scene was a spirited discussion of the imperial budget in the course of which animated reference was made to the naval programme and the foreign situation of germany herr schelde mann socialist attacked the government but vehemently criticised the action of the kaiser orator overcome by hysteria at the conclusion of herr scheldemanu's speech lieutenant colonel goltz a com missioner of the federal council arose to reply he uttered the opening words of his address then stopped suddenly and burst into a hysterical shriek of laughter a fellow member of the council moved to the lieutenant colonel's side with a word of soothing admonition but the speaker's agitation grew and amid great confusion he was carried shrieking and sobbing from the building during the debate herr sydew secretary of the imperial treasury went over the details of the revenues and the expendi ture he referred to tue sacrifices neces sary ro put the finances of the empire on a proper oasis and waa followed by speak ers of various parties who criticised the increased celerity in building battleships a fact that a member of the center party said was taken as a challenge by other nations germany resents criticism herr bassermnn national-liberal then declared that germany had never objected to the military and naval plans and arma ments of other nations and that she re jected energetically all suggestions from abroad regarding her army and navy which she would arrange according to her own wishes at the same time he said the whole na tion rejoiced that germany has decided to support iter ally austria-hungary in her attitude on the balkan situation Taft does not want park named after him cincinnati ohio dec s that pres ident-elect Taft does not fancy the dis tinction that comes from attaching the family name to parks became evident to day when mike mulleu one of the local republican bosses received a letter from him requesting that the name of Taft park be changed recently mullen had the rh.v council pass an ordinance changing the name of inwood park mount auburn to Taft park and he will now have the old name restored roosevelt to use big stick on his last congress session opening at washing ton to-morrow must not be dull president's dictum strenuous message prod if necessary further docu ments will be fired when ever solons sleep Â„' he wants laws remedied labor legislation is among important matters to be considered washington dec s.â€”presi dent roosevelt will have to fan into flame the smolder ing embers of the sixtieth congress which reassembles for its final ses sion at noon monday or its vital spark will flicker out march 4 next unnoticed and unmounrcd the president may be relied upon to furnish some excitement the idea of a tame and dead session of con gress does not appeal to him he wants debate discussion action congressmen who have visited we recently are impressed with the fact , that he does not take kindly to the thought that his administration shall close in sluggish dullness it is reported that his annual message will be one of his strongest papers to con gress and that it will bristle with sugges tions for new legislation that will rattle dry bones and cauÃŸe the most progressive of the republican members to sit up and take notice will force action if this message should not break the promised lethargy of the session special meetings it is promised are to come and they may force a reluctant house and an antagonistic senate into action congressmen gathering here during the past week have been promising themselves a quiet session the leaders speak as though the only things upon the house pro gramme for the winter are the appropria tion bills which carry the money needed for the conduct of the goverument these bills which total approximately about one billion dollars are being drafted now by the great committee having them in charge from the estimates that have been submit ted by the heads of the various depart ments charged with the disbursement of the money â€¢ while these bills will have to run the gauntlet of the house and the senate it is not believed that they will be cut to any great extent first two billion congress the sixtieth congress is fated to go down into history as the first two billion congress the first session having appropri ated a little more than a billion dollars despite the fact that no large appropria tions were made for great public works no river and harbor bill being reported and the public buildings bill being slashed until it was unrecognizable even b its fathers there has been some talk that excite ment may be stirred up in the house by a fight to change the rules in order that the power of the speaker may be clipped but uncle joe has not been consulted by those making this promise an over sight that is fatal to their plans the rule in force at the last session will govern at the coming session they were adopted at the caucus of the republicans lipid prior to the opening of the first sessiou for the life of the sixtieth congress to change the rules it would be neces sary to hold another caucus and cannon and his friends would be in control of the caucus the change cannot be made from the floor of the house any resolution to that end would be sent to the committee on rules where it would die speaker can non alone can change the rules by giving his assent to the change proposed they smile in derision a report has reached here from hot springs va though it lacks official con firmation that a condition of the with drawal of the opposition of president-elect Taft to the re-election of cannon as speak er of the sixty-first congress is that there shall be a change in the rules of the house whereby the speaker will be shoru of most of his authority speaker cannon says nothing as to this but his friends binile in derision uncle joe will not surrender one jot or tittle of his power they affirm he did not make the rules they say he found them in existence when ha came to the speakership they have net been increased or diminished by him his predecessors found them necessary to the dispatch of business in the house he continued on 2d page 4th column jm weather forecast ft ftjs Chicago and vicinity snow || w or rain sunday ; fresh and increasing y.j v j easterly winds ; monday snow f ol jtf ten lowed by clearing and colder ffl hundred of people are flndinff work throug-h examiner situation wanted ad and the examiner employment ex change try it yourielf * the increasing popularity of the examiner's methods for the placement of tirst class help with tirst-class con cerns is apparent in the or ders for 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